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		<title>Community rent increases plus legal fees!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sally Wainman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rent increases for community and voluntary groups Recap and update: On 10th January this year the Executive of Ipswich Borough Council  discussed a report headed &#8220;Rent Discounts to Voluntary and Community Organisations&#8221;. This Orwellian title was probably chosen to disguise the fact that the Council&#8217;s  intention was, in fact, to greatly increase community rents. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipswichspy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12038091&amp;post=2447&amp;subd=ipswichspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Gummer wants tax bill to reveal where its spent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ben Gummer MP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a move we&#8217;re told has interested George Osbourne, Ipswich&#8217;s Ben Gummer MP will today put forward a ten minute rule bill aimed at making the tax man reveal how our taxes are spent each year, providing all taxpayers with a personalised statement that would show exactly how much tax they had paid and where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipswichspy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12038091&amp;post=2426&amp;subd=ipswichspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Councillor for Bixley loses his last fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ipswich Borough Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffolk County Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bixley Ward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russell Harsant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Russell Harsant, County and Borough Councillor for Bixley Ward in Ipswich, sadly passed away in the early hours of this morning, aged 78. Cllr Harsant had been fighting cancer for many months, but had managed to carry on as before until the last few weeks. His health deteriorated rapidly after Christmas and he was treated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipswichspy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12038091&amp;post=2421&amp;subd=ipswichspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Council limits rent rises to inflation</title>
		<link>http://ipswichspy.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/council-limits-rent-rises-to-inflation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ipswich Borough Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Council Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Ellesmere]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ipswich Borough Council is proposing to keep a rise in council house rents to inflation from April this year, according to a report being presented to a council meeting next week, rejecting proposals to push rents up by 7.2% as part of Government guidelines to achieve rent convergence by 2015/16. Ipswich Spy understands this decision [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipswichspy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12038091&amp;post=2413&amp;subd=ipswichspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Full market rent can be charged for community organisations</title>
		<link>http://ipswichspy.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/full-market-rent-can-be-charged-for-community-organisations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sally Wainman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ipswich Borough Council]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chantry Residents Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ipswich Furniture Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISCRE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maidenhall Residents Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rent discounts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 10th January 2012 the Executive Committee of Ipswich Borough Council discussed a report on rent discounts to voluntary and community organisations. The basic premise of this report is that new leases will be negotiated with the organisations listed in Appendix 2 (not on the Open part of the Report) and that a market rent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ipswichspy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12038091&amp;post=2406&amp;subd=ipswichspy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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